According to PDAD 2021, 55.5% of the inhabitants of the federal capital are natives of the city
When the 31-year-old Brazilian journalist Marcela Franco was a child, she found it strange that her father Antônio Cândido Osório Neto was born in Brasília. That’s because the lawyer is a few days older than the city. The man turned 63 last March 8, while the city idealized by Juscelino Kubitschek comes of age on April 21.
“It was hard to imagine where he lived, because in my head there was nothing here. It was very strange, because in my life I was the only person who had a father born in Brasilia”, he recalls. “Today I think it’s very cool and I understand that my family is a pioneer. I think that made us very passionate about the city”, adds Marcela, who has two sons, Antônio, 4, and Bernardo, 1.
What was strange at that time is now a reality in Brasilia. According to data from the District Household Sample Survey (PDAD) 2021, carried out by the Federal District Research and Statistics Institute (IPEDF), 55.5% of the population of Brasília correspond to people born in the DF.
The rise of Brazilians of origin among the city’s residents began in 2013, when the number of people born here began to approach that of people from other states in Brazil. The amount passed in 2018, with the natives of the DF surpassing the others, becoming 55.3%.
“The last two PDADs already point to a difference close to 5% between this population [nascidos e migrantes]. In 2018, the number was 1.5 million, while in 2021, there were already more than 1.6 million in the universe of a population of three million. We see growth. We are already the majority… I can say that because I also include myself in this contingent”, highlights the coordinator of Socioeconomic Research at IPEDF, Jusçanio de Souza, who is also from Brasília and turns 63 in the same month as Brasília.
“It’s not just statistics that show this significant population growth in over 60 years. When Brasilia started, there were eight satellite cities registered and today there are 35 administrative regions. These changes can be considered very fast”, says the coordinator.
new generations
Coordinator Jusçanio and lawyer Antônio Cândido are part of the select group of 0.6% of the population that was born in Brasília and that will blow out 63 candles in 2023. “In my age group, I had few friends from Brasilia. But then, little by little, I made younger friends who were already born here. All my brothers were also born in Brasília, as were my four children”, reports the lawyer, who is the son of a pioneering couple: the gaucho Antônio Carlos Elizalde Osório, the first lawyer in Brasília, and Natanry Osório, from Goiás, who came to Brasilia in 1957.
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The family of Melissa Maia, 22 years old, tells the story of this increase in the genuinely candanga population that happened over the years. The student and her children Alice, 5, and Ícaro, 1, are part of the city’s residents who raise the rate of births in the DF. In their age groups, they correspond to 10.2%, 10.2% and 11.3% of the natural population of Brasília, respectively.
Melissa’s children are already a third generation from Brasilia. Their grandmother, Karla, 48, was also born in the square – and is now part of the age group that is equivalent to 4.5% of this population –, at a time when births began to be more common. “Since I was born in the 2000s, I come from a generation where children already had parents from Brasilia. For me, it was ordinary. I thought it was strange who had a father and mother from outside”, comments the young woman.
More than being a family of origin in the DF, the Maias like to keep the city’s traditions alive for generations. Melissa remembers that she liked to go to Parque da Cidade to play with the rocket and the toys at Nicolândia and also to go shopping. “There are many memories that I certainly want to take to my children. It has become a tradition, for example, to take my daughter to the Baratinha carnival block. And I want to continue taking them to places that remind us of Brasilia, like the TV Tower, which Alice was enchanted with”, she reveals.
Brasilienses profile
Among migrants, at the top of the origins of residents is Minas Gerais (15.5%), followed by Bahia (11.9%), Goiás (11.9%), Maranhão (11.6%) and Piauí (11. 4%)
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Of the 55.5% of the inhabitants of Brasília who were born in the Federal District, the largest portion of the population is among people aged 0 to 24 years. “As people get further away, with more advanced age, the percentage of people born in Brasília decreases and vice versa”, reveals Jusçanio de Souza.
There is a balance between men and women. But there is distinction when it comes to color. The largest portion of this group is made up of brown (47.1%) and white (41.6%) people, to a lesser extent black (9.7%), yellow (1.35%) and indigenous (1.35 %).
With regard to migrants, there is a difference in the level of schooling. “We have a significant number of people born with higher or incomplete higher education. We have a high profile that is far from the country’s average”, reveals the IPEDF coordinator. Among those born in the DF, 42.1% have completed higher education and 9.1% have incomplete higher education, against 32.6% with completed higher education and 4.1% with incomplete higher education among those who were not born.
Among the migrants, a striking feature is the origins of the residents. At the top is Minas Gerais, with 15.5%, followed by Bahia (11.9%), Goiás (11.9%), Maranhão (11.6%) and Piauí (11.4%).
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With information from Agência Brasilia